Sir In response to a recent request for a progress report on the Botley Road railway bridge, following a 2,000-signature petition submitted last year, county councillor David Robertson has responded: "Options for providing some degree of cycling facility for eastbound cyclists under the bridge have been extensively explored. For safety, financial or practical reasons we do not consider that these can be taken forward in the foreseeable future."

The phrase "brick wall" comes to mind. It is, of course, perfectly sound to install a concrete wall along the Oxford Eastern Bypass, but somehow not to improve safety of the most vulnerable, where there have been at least two fatal accidents and several serious ones.

C.S. Hersom, Cumnor Hill